Issue 45 / English
Editorials
- From the editor (page 1)
Field Articles
- Boosters, Barriers, Questions: an approach to organising and analysing SQUEAC data (page 6)
- An analysis of Fresh Food Voucher Programme piloted in Ethiopia (page 27)
- Transforming awareness and training into effective CMAM Performance (page 42)
- Barriers to resilience: chronic poverty, climate change and disasters in the southwest of Bangladesh (page 46)
- High OTP coverage through the Ministry of Health in Chad (page 51)
Evaluations
Research
- Mortality in Somalia during food insecurity and famine (2010-2012) (page 3)
- The use of evidence in humanitarian decision making (page 8)
- Microfinance institutions and a coastal community’s disaster risk reduction, response, and recovery process in Bangladesh (page 10)
- Assessment of the PROBIT approach for estimating the prevalence of acute malnutrition from population surveys (page 11)
- Antibiotics as part of the management of severe acute malnutrition (page 12)
- Do children with uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition need antibiotics? (page 13)
- Effect of mass supplementation with RUSF during an anticipated nutritional emergency (page 14)
- Impact evaluation of child caring practices project on stunting in Ethiopia (page 16)
- Gender impact analysis of unconditional cash transfers in south central Somalia (page 18)
- High levels of mortality, malnutrition and measles amongst displaced Somali refugees in Dadaab, Kenya (page 19)
- MUAC as discharge criterion and weight gain in malnourished children (page 21)
- Wasting is associated with stunting in early childhood (page 22)
- Determining predictors for severe acute malnutrition: Causal analysis within a SQUEAC assessment in Chad (page 23)
- Assessment of agreement between a new electronic scale and mechanical suspended scale for measurement of children’s weight in Ethiopia (page 26)
Postscripts
Agency Profiles
- Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (page 48)
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank (page 50)
News & Views
- Deworming Debunked (page 31)
- Evidence-based Humanitarian Assistance Certificate (page 31)
- Deworming children at military healthcare facilities in a combat zone: an opportunity not to be missed? (page 32)
- UNICEF international conference against child Undernutrition (page 32)
- Coverage Monitoring Network Profile (page 33)
- A consultation of operational agencies and academic specialists on MUAC and WHZ as indicators of SAM (page 34)
- IUNS 20th international congress of Nutrition, 15-20 Sept 2013, Granada (page 34)
- New metric on hunger and food insecurity piloted by FAO (page 34)
- Global Prices, Local Diets: Reflections on repeated food price spikes and Undernutrition (page 36)
- HTP Module 23: Nutrition of Older People in Emergencies (page 37)
- Summary of Field Exchange Evaluation (page 37)
- Something for everyone: three perspectives from a recent coverage assessment in Pakistan (page 39)
- Why coverage is important: efficacy, effectiveness, coverage, and the impact of CMAM Interventions (page 39)
People in Aid
- People in aid (page 53)
Other
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The year 2013 promises to be an important year for the nutrition aid community and those whom it serves. Since the launch of the Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) movement in 2010, the Hunger Summit in London 2012 and other events and initiatives, nutrition – or rather the problem of undernutrition – has (at last) been receiving unparalled national and global attention. This year is proving to be a very important year for governments, civil society, donor organisations, UN agencies, businesses and foundations to deliver on this momentum. Targets and resource pledges to enable actions at the national and local levels to reduce stunting, acute malnutrition and micronutrient malnutrition are evolving.
By the end of 2013, there will have been numerous high level forums, meetings and conferences where advocates, decision makers and implementers will have gathered to demonstrate their commitment to what we should all consider to be the realisation of nutrition justice, i.e. the eradication of undernutrition in all its forms now and in the future.
This editorial casts a spotlight on the achievements and challenges relating to treatment of acute malnutrition and what the ENN have learnt from a recently completed review about the financing and systems landscape currently in place and the adjustments that will be needed if greater scale up is to be achieved. The review was undertaken by the ENN as a follow up to the 2011 CMAM Conference in Ethiopia, and was funded by Irish Aid and CIDA. We believe that the findings from this review raises important issues and want to use this editorial to share these, in the hope that the.